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Honored to talk with Dr. Walter Moberly about ways to understand the Old Testament -- and to learn about his latest book: The God of the Old Testament: Encountering the Divine in Christian Scripture, wherein he writes about eight key Old Testament passages that give us insights into the nature of God in Christian Scriptures. The full podcast is available here:
http://www.mikedelgado.org/podcast/moberly/

Dr. Walter Moberly is an English theologian and professor of theology and Biblical interpretation at Durham University. He earned his M.A. at Oxford University and an M.A. and Ph.D. at Cambridge University. He is also an ordained priest in the Church of England. He is known for his creative, accessible, and provocative writing. Some of his books include: The God of the Old Testament, Old Testament Theology, The Bible in a Disenchanted Age, and The Theology of the Book of Genesis.

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Index
00:00 Becoming an academic reader of Bible
02:05 Why the Bible interested Dr. Moberly
05:10 Studying under John A.T. Robinson
07:41 Dealing with difficult passages of Bible
09:40 Story of Two Books
11:20 Danger of becoming schizophrenic read of bible
12:03 Bringing scholarly depth & existential life together
12:43 Bishop Keith Sutton: "Bible is a mansion to explore”
15:00 Studying Bible as a historian
17:20 Conquest of Cannan is troubling
19:31 Story of Rahab - Theme of Inclusion
22:33 Angelic figure isn’t on anyone’s side
24:22 Christians believe God is loving (as we see in Christ)
26:40 Theme of Jeremiah: Be Faithful
28:50 Laments in Scripture